Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht MBE (15 October 1894 – 16 March 1984) was a Lutheran missionary and pastor who was the superintendent at Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia from 1926 to 1952 where he made a significant contribution.

Albrecht initially attended the local village school before he moved to study and live at the Hermannsburg Mission in Germany in 1913 and he graduated in 1924.

[2] World War I did interrupt his studies and, due to a childhood injury making him lame in one leg, Albrecht served in the German medical corps on the Russian front.

[4] Spurned on by this tragedy Albrecht advocated for the construction of the Kuprilya Springs Pipeline, which the Lutheran Mission Board refused to support, and he ultimately received the funds required from artists Jessie Traill and Una and Violet Teague.

Albrecht later lamented:[1] How many graves could have been left undug if we had had the water during those long years of droughtAlbrecht had a deep respect for Aboriginal spirituality but he saw no way to reconcile it with Christian faith.

[1] In 1952 Albrecht and his family (3 sons and 2 daughters) moved to Alice Springs following his wife, Minna, experiencing regular ill health.